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| 5031604601 | Apostrophe | Speaking to someone or something that cannot answer back, which includes a dead person. | 0 | |
| 5031607656 | Antithesis | When two things are put in opposition against each other (arguments, words, paragraphs). | 1 | |
| 5031607657 | Euphemism | A word that represents another word in a nicer or softer way to lessen the blow. | 2 | |
| 5031634324 | Oxymoron | An adjective and a noun that seem opposite, but together have a distinct meaning. | 3 | |
| 5031651663 | Juxtaposition | Putting two different things together to compare them. They do not necessarily have to be opposites though. | 4 | |
| 5031729886 | Idiosyncrasy | A quirk. In its adjective form, it can describe something that is quirky. | 5 | |
| 5071021074 | Discourse | A Discussion/Opinion Held. | 6 | |
| 5071022051 | Dominant Discourse | The most widely held opinion, either by the most people, or the people with the most influence. | 7 | |
| 5071028766 | Subversive Discourse | The opinion that is less popular and challenges the dominant discourse. | 8 | |
| 5071032995 | Marginalized Discourse | The opinion which is not publicized and is powerless. | 9 | |
| 5071036758 | Construct(s) | Anything that humans create that wouldn't exist without humans. Ex: Ideas. | 10 | |
| 5071042116 | Power | There is a constant _______________ struggle with every relationship. | 11 | |
| 5071044019 | Pharmakos | The scapegoat. The one friend which all of the negativity gets poured on to to relieve the negativity. | 12 | |
| 5071053299 | Grain | Reading With The __________ involves going where the author wants you to go, and not challenge what is happening. | 13 | |
| 5071058579 | Verisimilitude | How close something is to being true/reality. | 14 | |
| 5071060983 | Appropriation of Voice | When you speak for somebody else. | 15 | |
| 5071062701 | Ethos | An argument based on authority. | 16 | |
| 5071062702 | Pathos | An argument based on emotion. | 17 | |
| 5071064817 | Logos | An argument based on logic. | 18 | |
| 5071064818 | Mithos | An argument based on nationalism. | 19 | |
| 5071067426 | Exigence | Why the author decided to write the work. | 20 | |
| 5071068932 | Purpose | What the author wants to accomplish with their work. | 21 | |
| 5071071225 | Bildungsroman | Coming of Age | 22 | |
| 5071072986 | False Dichotemy | A statement that implies that there are only two options, when there are actually multiple. | 23 | |
| 5071088375 | Insolent | Adj: Acts deliberately in a way that breaks the rules, and like a bratty kid. | 24 | |
| 5071093736 | Audacious | Adj: Standing up, not doing what would be expected in that situation. | 25 | |
| 5071097735 | Patronizing | Adj: Challenging to one's intelligence - saying a terrible drawing by a kid is good. | 26 | |
| 5071101865 | Want | Lack of | 27 | |
| 5071104354 | For Want | For Lack of | 28 | |
| 5071111232 | Rhetorical | Of or pertaining to language. | 29 | |
| 5298878200 | Anticlimax | A Big build up, but no payoff. | 30 | |
| 5298880838 | Decry | To cry out against. | 31 | |
| 5298880890 | Gainsay | To deny. | 32 | |
| 5298882973 | Petulant | To act like a bratty kid. | 33 | |
| 5106593291 | Polysyndeton | A sequence of many descriptors each connected with a coordinating conjunction. | 34 | |
| 5106595416 | Periodic Sentence(s) | A sentence that has the subject and verb at the end, with many dependent clauses before. | 35 | |
| 5298561648 | Ad Hominem | Attacking the person not the argument. I.e. 2016 Presidential Election. | 36 | |
| 5298568487 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row deliberately. I.e. MLK: I Have a Dream, I have a dream, etc. Better used in speeches. | 37 | |
| 5298579570 | Asyndeton | Commas used with no conjuction to separeate a series of words. This is typically used in | 38 | |
| 5298586677 | Polysendeton | Sentence which uses and or another conjuction with no commas to separate the items in a series. | 39 | |
| 5298594243 | Begging the Question | Basing the conclusion on a typically general and flawed argument at the beginning. | 40 |
